TABLE OF CONTENTS
Personnel
v
Publications and Reports
xiii
Introduction
xvii
GENERAL PHYSICS
I.
Microwave Spectroscopy
1
Work Completed
1
Hydrogen Atom Addition to Solid Isobutylene at 77°K
II.
III.
IV.
Radio Astronomy
3
Pulsar Observations with a Swept-Frequency Local Oscillator
3
Search for the 1.35-cm Stratospheric H20 Line
6
Pulsar Observations
8
Ku-band Interferometer
10
Extended Bandwidth Long Baseline Interferometry
14
Solid-State Microwave Electronics
17
60-GHz Mixer
17
Some Aspects of High Dynamic Range Amplification
18
Intermodulation Distortion Analysis
18
Physical Electronics and Surface Physics
19
Experimental Investigation of the Velocity Distribution of
Hydrogen Molecules Desorbed from Metal Surfaces
V.
Physical Acoustics
19
27
Ultrasonic Dispersion in Piezoelectric Semiconductors
27
Nonlinear Interaction between
Liquid Surface
30
a Sound
Field and
a
Nonlinear Wave Distortion of Acoustic-Noise Spectrum
VI.
1
Electrodynamics of Media
37
41
Parametric Cross-Modulation Effects in Gas Lasers
41
Parametric Effects in the Helium-Neon Gas Laser
46
Use of Addition Theorems for Electromagnetic
Synthesis on Circular Cylinders and Spheres
Quantization of Electromagnetic
Moving Uniaxial Media
QPR No. 95
Radiation
Fields
Field
49
in
55
CONTENTS
PLASMA DYNAMICS
VII.
57
Plasmas and Controlled Nuclear Fusion
57
Waves and Radiation
57
Anomalous Cyclotron Radiation
VIII.
65
Applied Plasma Research
65
Active Plasma Systems
Stability of Electron Beams with Velocity Shear
65
COMMUNICATION SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING
IX.
X.
69
Speech Communication
Speech and Audio Computer-Aided Examination and
Analysis Facility
69
TASS - Another Terminal Analog Speech Synthesis System
73
A Facility for Studying Perception of Timing in Natural Speech
81
85
Linguistics
On the Inappropriateness of Rule Features
XI.
95
Cognitive Information Processing
Moir6 Patterns in Sampling Halftone Pictures
XII.
85
95
Holography and Imaging of Three-Dimensional Objects
101
Survey of Type Font Usage
105
109
Communications Biophysics
Current Noise in Nerve Membrane:
Measurement Techniques
Some Comments on
110
Comparison of Two Models Relating the Resting Membrane
Potential of Squid Axon to Ion Concentrations
116
Alternate Route for Acoustic Stimulation of a Lizard Inner Ear
121
Automated System to Control Stimulus and Measure Response
Variables in Experiments on the Auditory System
122
Psychophysics
127
Experiments on Binaural Hearing
Interaural Time Discrimination
127
Monaural Detection with Contralateral Cueing
1 30
Instrumentation
QPR No. 95
131
Four-Quadrant Multiplier
131
Solid-State Random Noise Generator
131
Feasibility of Electronic Spoofing of Bat Sonar
Author Index
127
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